Rising Tide 6: Blogging Live
Posted: August 27, 2011 Filed under: Live, New Orleans | Tags: hurricane katrina, Rising Tide 6 66 Comments
Good Morning!
While all of you on the east coast are dealing with Irene, those of us in New Orleans that lived through Katrina are still dealing with the aftermath. This is the sixth annual conference of social activists and bloggers in New Orleans–called Rising Tide– who are still trying to see New Orleans recover and become all the promise the city holds. We’re at Xavier University and if you want to follow along with any of the sessions, there’s a webcast here. It’s much bigger this year which is really good to see.
I’m listening to the morning keynote speaker:
Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella is the author of six critically acclaimed books on the physical and human geography of New Orleans, including “Bienville’s Dilemma,” “Geographies of New Orleans,” and “Lincoln in New Orleans.” The only two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year award, Rich has also received the Williams Prize for Louisiana History and the Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching from Tulane University.
We’re up to around the civil war when Lincoln used to refer to us as the sugar coast. It’s interesting to hear the history of the city from the first settlement forward and how our neighborhoods or ‘fauborgs’ have come about.
So, I’ll be updating this now and then today. I’d really suggest you tune in later this afternoon to the webcast because there will be two fun sessions on the live webcast. One will be on New Orleans Food and cooking and two great chefs will be speaking on the panel. The other one is a panel on brass bands followed by a concert. I’m hoping to network with some of my twitter buddies and fellow social justice advocates!
So, if you hang around, I promise you’ll feel like you’re part of making the Big Easy’s future grand!
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Good morning, Dak! I’m so glad you made it to the conference. I’m looking forward to following along with you. Have a great day!!
I’m excited that you can watch with me if you want!!!
If you’re interested in the latest on the Oil Gusher at 11:40 cst there will be a webcast broadcast of that particular panel.
The social justice/social media panel is next up 10:15 am.
Food panel is at 3:05 cst
and the Brass bands are at 4:35
I know I’m going to like the brass bands.
The link to the live stream doesn’t work–for me anyway. I’m getting an error code.
try this one:The Tide is LIVE!: bit.ly/pBV3wB
That works!
We’re doing the social media/social justice panel write now and this great prof is talking about what it is and what it’s up to right now … she’s calling it interfacing social media and social justice
Professor Kimberly Chandler, moderator of Soc. Media/Soc. Justice panel’s introductory remarks.
and first up an OFA person …. this should be interesting
I’ve been listening to the social media panel. Very interesting!
yes! I know want to read Floodlines by the sociology prof at Tulane …
really can’t wait to get the latest on the gulf oil gusher; especially since it looks like its still active
Glad you’re listening along!!!
Reporter up now that covered the Jena 6
This guy is talking about what is wrong with the traditional media … really good comments
he says it’s not main stream media but corporate media …
also mentioning Democracy Now and AJ and how they’re not corporate funded
Stephen Ostertag – Ostertag is a sociologist at Tulane University. His research and teaching are in the areas of news media, democracy and citizenship; and crime, incarceration and inequalities. He is currently researching the growing social organization of bloggers and its implications for the production, dissemination, and consumption of news and information. He also recently started a blog named publicspherenola. Stephen is originally from Connecticut, where he was a volunteer with the Hartford Independent Media Center.
this is who is speaking
kewl comment about how black reporters could name the riot that they were hired after… talking about alternative media in the 60s and 70s and how its lost its funding
August 27, 2011 at 10:45 am also mentioning Democracy Now …. how they’re not corporate funded
certainly not. Their cover is deeper than that.
talking about the strength of bloggers and social media is it breaks down the media into people that actually look like people … breaks down class barriers, etc. still a lot of white males.
we should push for a media that looks like US
what’s missing in corporate media and what do we need to add?
he’s talking about Tahir square … he went to egypt and talked to bloggers involved in the revolution … including a woman there… talked about what made the revolution work …
she said soccer hooligans were important!!! lol!!!
Great take away line here:
“Media doesn’t tell you what to think but it tells you what to think about.”
also like the idea of “Challenging the Media”
The Re-Capping the Well panel is up …
Re-capping the well
The aftermath of the Macondo oil disaster and the future of the Gulf Coast. A discussion about how what’s just happened over the past year will affect the land and the people for years to come.
Moderator: Alex Woodward – staff writer, Gambit, covering the environment, arts and culture of south Louisiana.
Anne Rolfes – Founding director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. Anne began her organizing career in West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo. It was there that she first witnessed the destruction of oil production. After six years of working on Nigerian issues, Anne returned to Louisiana in 1999 to protect her home state from petrochemical pollution. Anne was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana where many people made their fortunes from the oil industry. She has seen the wealth and the poverty created by oil production and seeks to make the industry more equitable. In October 2007 Anne was recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Community Health Leader.
David Hammer – An award-winning reporter for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He led the paper’s investigation of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon rig and broke several stories about key engineering decisions that contributed to the BP well blowout. His beats since the oil spill also include the drilling moratorium and Kenneth Feinberg’s administration of spill claims. Hammer is a seventh-generation New Orleanian and a graduate of Harvard University. He worked five years for newspapers in New England and four years with The Associated Press.
Dr. Len Bahr – The former director of the Governor’s Applied Coastal Science Program who currently publishes the La Coast Post website.
Drake Toulouse- A BP and Gulf Coast Claims Facility critic who writes at Disenfranchised Citizen.
Bob Marshall – Marshall is The Times-Picayune’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has spent much of his career chronicling the people, stories and issues of Louisiana’s wetlands culture. Although best known as outdoors editor of the newspaper, Marshall’s 35-year career includes extensive work as a reporter and columnist covering professional, college and Olympics sports, feature writing, op-ed columns, and special projects specializing in environmental issues.
David Hammer talking right now. He’s going over the events right now.
Oil industry has a terrible accident problem .. industry averages 10 accidents a week in the state of LA for the last FIVE years…. shocking!
out in the GULF like 3000 in 2009 alone… and that’s probably not all reported … you never see the fires, etc.
from Anne
and they get away with it
Oil industry is protected by OUR representatives … two reps used exact same words when they spoke at congressional panel … from LA written by oil industry
“Tired of hearing that oil industry raped Louisiana.. more like consensual sex.” – T-P’s Bob Marshall
Disenfranchised Citizen blogger @DrakeToulouse speaking now about Ken Feinberg’s promises and the GCCF.
He’s following people that have been denied reparations for their damage.
Toulouse: Feinberg continually talks about transparency, but he doesn’t really deliver on it.
TP Reporter talking about Feinberg not being humble at all but coming down with his Washington DC cache to save people like he did in 9-11 rather than actually helping people. He didn’t deliver. He was brazen. We wanted him to succeed but it just didn’t happen.
They’re talking about all the Health Care issues being ignored and the people that fell between the cracks here.
Paying out more/less settlements to different people is a calculated move to create tension among them
Oh that’s a good one (consensual sex thing).
FYI, they’re just predicting thunderstorms for the Boston area tomorrow. Irene is a cat 1 in NC with 86 mph winds. I can’t wait to see the press conference when Mayor Bloomberg has to explain why he didn’t change the evacuation order for 350,000 people. LOL
“As the mayor of NY gives evac order for NYC and Irene I wanted to ask “why do they live there?” Bob Marshall
It’s like a free or all right now on the Republican anti-science agenda. Guess that’s what you get when you see a panel of scientists.
They’re saying our legislation is basically a paid for subsidiary of the petroleum industry. They don’t want safety regulations or oversight and they want to deny climate change.
Only at a blogging conference in New Orleans would the beer be free but a diet coke cost me $1
sigh….
Now that is funny…
Dak, thank you for blogging this. I have tried to get the live feed to work, but I think my connection is just too slow for it to work. It keeps on buffering.
For those of you who would be interested in Richard Campanella’s books: Amazon.com: Richard Campanella: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
David Simon is creator and executive producer of HBO’s New Orleans dramaTreme. He is a Baltimore-based former journalist for the Baltimore Sun and television producer of acclaimed programs such as The Corner, The Wire and Generation Kill.
up now …
Simon’s topic is “standing” in storytelling
: “You walk into every story as a curious person who doesn’t know anything.”
New Orleans is where you go “when you can’t afford Europe.”
standing is that you have to be who you want to write about
“We were very deferential to the local, because I’m not a local.”
“I’m going to make an argument that standing is the lamest way to approach any argument.”
I really like those. My sister has performed as a storyteller professionally. I’ll tell her about him.
you get some things wrong because you’re an outsider and you get some things right because you are an outsider …
I just don’t care about standing
Here is an article from The Atlantic back in 2008, thought it would be a good side note for David Simon…The Angriest Man In Television – Magazine – The Atlantic
kewl thx!!!
He’s talking about the houses on the Treme posters that were to be bulldozers and the historic preservation society asked the production company to help them save the houses …
talking about the mayor going batshit now … pretty funny
Treme: David Simon’s strange spat with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. – By Justin Vogt – Slate Magazine
City Responds to Demolition of “Treme” Poster Blight | NOLA DEFENDER
you’ll have to check the archives when you don’t have the lag problem … this was pretty out there … not quite Mac McClelland out there like last year, but out there …
interesting tweet from local newspaper Gambit to the Mayor:
Confidential to @MayorLandrieu: David Simon is really, REALLY not over the demolition brouhaha. Trash-talking you big time #Rt6
I wrote about this when it happened on Skydancing … I’ll try to locate the blog post later for reference.
The_Gambit Gambit
David Simon: @MayorLandrieu “would throw anybody under the bus if the cameras were on” #Rt6
Oh, we’re going to be on the news tonight … roflmao
The_Gambit Gambit
Now David Simon forecasting doom for LSU/VA project based on John Hopkins’ tear downs in East Baltimore #Rt6
I have links to the posters in those articles I posted about the demolition brouhaha…
Oooo, to see y’all on the old circle box!
roflmao
Sophmom Sharon Barnhart
Lots of F-bombs and a beer on the stage. Yet another keynoter goes native. #davidsimon #risingtide #rt6 #nola
Simon: “Some schmuck from Baltimore came here and did a show about your town … He got some stuff right. He got some stuff wrong.”
“If you’re wearing the ‘journalism hat’ & you’re making shit up: Take the hat off.”
The_Gambit Gambit
David Simon: “I’ve got news for you – LSU is NOT the premier medical institution in the South” #Rt6 (But tops in bar fights!)
That’s a reference to all the arrests this week of LSU football players for battery including the QB.
okee ….
Simon: “most men lead lives of quiet masturbation”
Thoreau is rolling over…